Wednesday, May 24, 2017

Finished my fourth Rainbow Scrap Challenge color for this year... I have purple, aqua, red and green. Still missing one. Just remembered the Multicolored month... I only made one strip of geese that month. Here are the greens I finished this week.

Sunday, May 21, 2017

Today would be my only daughter's 44th birthday. She was such a bright penny. A perky girl, you know the kind. I loved her so much. . . but she died of breast cancer in 2013 and I've been like half a person since then. I usually donate my H2H quilt to Happy Chemo, in honor of her, but this year there is Camp Hobe, and I knew she would want me to donate to kids with cancer. I made an I Spy quilt in a strip design. I hope it is fun for one of those kids.

I measured it, and it qualifies as the right size, but I promptly forgot the dimensions.

Above shows the backing - had to piece it, but that red was just right with the wavy multicolored print. Yellow print binding.

Wednesday, May 17, 2017

H2H quilt for Camp Hobe done and off in the mail this afternoon. I feel such relief! I'm such a procrastinator. I did have trouble with the sewing machine on the quilting and binding. (Exasperating.) The thread kept breaking and the stitch length was way off. I have a shaky hand and with my eyes, makes it really hard to rethread so often. One time I got to sew for less than 2 inches! I didn't really like the fabrics I chose at first, but after I put in a few plainer color on color prints, it looked better to me.
I'll show it off on Sunday at Confessions of a Fabric Addict .
So now I'm rewarding myself with some RSC green and making another strip of geese.

I picked out a dark to light grade this time.

Have a great spring day... we are currently continuing the enlargement of Lake Superior.

Saturday, May 6, 2017

Since I posted last I've worked on the H2H quilt and I did make a set of green geese... before the announced new color! Here it is.

I wasn't so proud of it... one of the geese is not ironed right, I didn't notice until I was done. Oh well. I can always make more. Tried to make a yellow one, too, but it's really hard to grade the shades of such a light color.

For those interested, my eyes are getting better. The degree of double sight is diminishing, I can concentrate and get a single image with both eyes open - if it's a simple object I'm looking at. Things are looking up!

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I'm the wife of a now retired salesman, Mom of 2 adult sons, and one Angel in Heaven. Grammy of 9 and Great Grammy of 1- some of them are nearing adult status, too... but I'm not old. I'm the new 40 something. (Can you see my fingers crossed?) I like quilting, starting new plants, rubber stamping cards, making bracelets and lots of other crafts. I believe housework is overrated, so I leave that for special occasions. My favorite holiday is Halloween and I love Harry Potter! (Sounds like True Confessions, doesn't it.)(The picture is from college days... I'm not telling the decade! I did make the sweater vest myself, with an ombre yarn. I've always liked it, but it sure wouldn't fit me anymore!) I hope you enjoy my blog.